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Biodiversity: Diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. Note: The preservation of biodiversity is considered by environmentalists.

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1 Biodiversity: Diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment. Note: The preservation of biodiversity is considered by environmentalists to be a major goal of environmental policy.

2 Ecological Diversity:
 Is a type of biodiversity. It is the variation in the ecosystems found in a region or the variation in ecosystems over the whole planet.

3 Habitat: The natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism.

4 Niche: The position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals.

5 POPULATION distribution:
The arrangement or spread of organisms living in a given area; also, how the population of an area is arranged according to variables.

6 POPULATION DENSITY: The number of organisms living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile); the number of organisms relative to the space occupied by them

7 Resource Partitioning:
So, when species divide a niche to avoid competition for resources, it is called resource partitioning. Sometimes the competition is between species (interspecific competition) and sometimes it's between individuals of the same species (intraspecific competition).

8 Species Richness: Species richness is simply the number of species present in a sample, community, or taxonomic group. Species richness is one component of the concept of species diversity, which also incorporates evenness, that is, the relative abundance of species.

9 One species or one type of organism
Monoculture One species or one type of organism

10 Polyculture Many species or many types of organisms


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